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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSomething like meat but not meat | By Mark Morford
Did you feel that? That visceral, whole-body shudder? That weird, painful spasm in the national colon?
Something rather dire has transpired, is why. Something creepy and banal, fatty and soaked in synthetic hormones, blasted with bleach, injected with filler, ground up with various leftover animal bits, grease, feces, oil fumes, a few million fingernails, lost and desiccated dreams. And Im not talking about GOP pitbull Eric Cantor losing to a nutball tea party nobody who loves Ayn Rand and really hates immigrants.
Its just capitalism at work. Again. Its just one heavily toxic megacorp buying up another toxic megacorp and all of it making a perverse sort of sense, given how Tyson Foods is one of the largest (and scariest) industrial meat purveyors in the land, and its new, $8 billion acquisition, Hillshire Brands, makes some of the weirdest and most fat- and preservative-encrusted handheld (its a category) meat-like products in the universe (Jimmy Dean, Sara Lee, Ballpark Franks, et al) the kinds of products that, shortly after you eat them, cause your vision to wobble, your heart to seize and random extremities to lose sensation for a few hours. You know, just for fun.
Were used to it by now, are we not? Giant, blandly evil companies that have your best interests nowhere in sight coming together to make you even more sick and addicted to chemically blasted, malformed food products for the sake of massive profit, and to hell with your regulation and your concerns about animal treatment, national health, obesity rates, spiritual well being, the very definition of meat?
http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2014/06/10/something-like-meat-but-not-meat/
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Something like meat but not meat | By Mark Morford (Original Post)
madokie
Jun 2014
OP
And good morning, madokie!
yellerpup
(12,253 posts)3. Fast food is poison.
Obesity and ill health are on the rise. Hormones (other than your own) and antibiotics wreck the digestive system and children are being diagnosed with weird 'genetic' diseases that no one in their families have ever had before. Food is medicine and needs to be respected.
GoCubsGo
(32,078 posts)4. Eat shit and die.
Excellent piece. That processed stuff doesn't even taste good. And, it's as much the bad juju from all the inhumane factory farming as it is from the chemicals. I'm not a vegetarian, but I'll eat beans and rice over that shit any day.